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dinsdag 6 oktober 2009

Nog even dan...

De moet-werkjes hebben we even gehad, hoop ik, en nu storten we ons weer op de mag-werkjes. Daarom had ik ook besloten, om niet meer over onze Scandinaviëreis te schrijven. Het is al weer zo lang geleden en het is leuker, om hier de dagelijkse productie van textiele zaken te beschrijven.Goede voornemens zijn er echter om onmiddellijk vanaf te stappen. In het afgelopen weekend sprak ik verrassend veel lezers van mijn blog (hallo allemaal!) en ik beloofde een paar keer nog wat foto's te plaatsen van een prachtige weeftentoonstelling die we in Finland zagen.It looks like I've had most of the 'must-do-jobs' and now I can move on to the may-do ones, I hope. Therefore I had decided not to write about our Scandinavia trip here any more. It is such a long time ago already and it seems more fun to write about the daily textile production. Good intentions are there, however, to forget about at once. In the past weekend I spoke to many readers of this blog (surprising: so many. Hello everybody!) and a few times I promised to show a few pictures of a splendid weaving exhibition we saw in Finland.

Dutch readers who read the magazine 'Handwerken zonder Grenzen' (Crafts without frontiers?) will recognise one of the names of the participants, because in the latest issue is an article about her: Aino Kajaniemi. Many times already I told people how beautiful I thought her work is. More reason to write about it here.

The exhibition was in a series of what looked like old horse stables. Each participant had one of the small stables to show her work. It looked nice against the old wooden walls. Here one of the walls with work of Kajaniemi.

In the main building with this exhibition was a kind of library and surprisingly one of the first books I saw there was a well-known Dutch book, called Dik Trom, about a boy who used to ride a horse backwards. Therefore I chose this rug of two children on their reindeers.

In one of the other rooms I admired the 'collapse weaves'. These are flat-woven weaves, that form pleats when they are washed. The reason is, that yarns shrink in a different way are are twisted/twined in a different way. For quite some time now, I want to try this out.